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My previous post kind of was the request but lets make it a more clear one.

To anyone who is marked as my challenger:

If it doesn't cause you too much pain/suffering/inconvenience/etc. could you make sure our teams are identical, please. If the rules don't prevent it it's ok for me that you just pass your duty of challenging to me and I'll spend the extra 30 sec to make sure the teams are identical.

The Rise of Season 15

Here are the tables for Season 15. It's your responsibility to issue two challenges for each time you're listed as Player 1 in this list - it's mirror image Dark Extermination again folks! Instructions will follow in the next post.

Game rules and league procedures

1) Each game must conform to the following settings:

Mode: Dark Extermination
Turn limit: 8 turns
Turn duration: 5 seconds per turn (i.e. 5000 milliseconds)
Visibility: vis at time zero
Team strength: four men per player - including at least one Grenade and/or Rocket
Mutators: at the challengers discretion
Server: UK1

Any game that does not conform to these rules will be void and must be replayed. A new map must be generated for each opponent. Please see the next post if you're not sure how to create a game with the correct settings, and post in this thread if you are in any doubt.

2) After creating each game on server UK1, the challenger must announce the challenge in this thread. Format: "Player1 has challenged Player2 in game_#1 and game_#2". (It would help if game_#1 was the game where you are Player 1, but I can probably figure it out.)

Example: "ColOfNature has challenged Xune in 123456 and 123459".

3) After each game has been completed, Player 1 must report the result in this thread. Standard format: "Winner has defeated Opponent in game game_# by X kills to Y".

Example: "Xune has defeated ColOfNature in game 123456 by 3 to 1".

In the event of a draw, the format is "Player1 and Player2 have drawn in game game_# with X kills"

Example: "ColOfNature and Xune have drawn in game 123456 with 0 kills each"

I will update the spreadsheet with the result of each game. Scores will be as normal: 3 pts for a win, 1 for a draw.

4) Challengers may start issuing their challenges from today (Saturday 01 December). All games must be completed by the end of Sunday 16 December.

5) We're all reasonable people, when pressed, so some flexibility will be applied. If you're going to be on holiday, or travelling to distant worlds, or otherwise restricted in your availability, please post in this thread and we will try to accommodate you as far as is reasonably practical.

6) Try to start your games in the first week and finish them early. Players leaving it to the last minute to issue a challenge or submit orders risk forfeiting the game. If any game is unfinished by the deadline I will declare both parties personae-non-grata and award your points to whoever strikes me as most deserving, by whatever criteria I consider appropriate at the time.

7) Any circumstances not catered for in these rules will be handled according to some combination of common sense, consensus, iron-fisted authoritarianism and whimsy. Mostly the latter.

Finally, a polite reminder that although PMing your email address to me is optional, it will make organisation easier so please consider doing so if you haven't already.

The divisions and rules for season 16 will be arranged some time after the close of season 15.

Also, if I've missed anything important or anything isn't clear then post below, PM me or email me either at ColOfNature or RockPaperSynapse on gmail to let me know.

How to issue a challenge

1) Log in to server UK1.2) Click the 'Online' button at the top of the screen3) Click 'Create a game'4) Click the 'Advanced setup' button5) Click the 'Generate Extermination' button6) If you get a silly map, or if you don't have four men per side with at least one explosive type, repeat the previous step until you're happy.7) Click 'Save level' then enter a meaningful name (I'd suggest your opponent's name) and click 'Okay'. (If you forget this step it' possible to recover the map so just ask if you have any trouble and someone will be able to help.)8) Click the 'Continue' button9) Ensure that the 'Game mode' is set to 'Extermination'10) Ensure that the 'Vis mode' is set to 'Vis at time zero'11) Ensure that the 'Turn limit' is set to 8 and the 'Turn length' to 5000.12) Activate Mutators, if you like (although you'll only be able to do this if you own the Red DLC)13) Enter your opponent's username (and select "I play side 1" immediately below if this is the first challenge to this opponent)14) Enter 'RPS League' or something suitable so that your opponent knows it's for this league15) Click the 'Submit' button16) Take your first turn and note the challenge in this thread, using the format in the post directly above this one

Then, to start the mirror game, repeat steps 1 thru' 5, then:17) Click 'Load level' and enter the name of the map from step 718) Click the 'Continue' button19) Change 'I play side 1' to 'I play side 2'20) Go to step 9 above - don't forget to make the Mutators the same, it's easy to overlook

If anything goes wrong, don't worry! Just issue the correct challenges and let your opponent know which is the correct game so they can ignore the faulty ones (which will eventually be deleted from your list if no-one takes a turn, and can be hdden until this happens).

Extermination has two flavours: one where you start in opposite corners, and you can win by wiping out your opponent or by moving one of your guys into the red square in your opponent's atrting area; and the other, where you start with your units placed randomly around the map. Feel free to choose whichever flavour you prefer, they both have their advantages.

And like rodeoclown says, maps are asymmetric but we play each from both starting positions to balance it out.

No worries, hapens all the time! Go to the Frozen Synapse install folder and look in psychoff/data/encounters/. Match number 635349's map will be saved as ref635349.enc, so copy that to psychoff/data/userlevels/ - you can change the name (just keep the .enc extension). Once you've copied it load it using the filename without the extension - so if you copied it without renaming then you'd put in "ref635349".

No worries, hapens all the time! Go to the Frozen Synapse install folder and look in psychoff/data/encounters/. Match number 635349's map will be saved as ref635349.enc, so copy that to psychoff/data/userlevels/ - you can change the name (just keep the .enc extension). Once you've copied it load it using the filename without the extension - so if you copied it without renaming then you'd put in "ref635349".

Thanks.

Maetco has challenged BigBobr99 in game 635418.

Good luck to everyone and remember, don't hate the player hate the game...just not this game.

Those look really cool. It's been suggested in the past that we should play out a round of the tournament using the same map for all the games, and I could see Hotel Breach or School Siege being good for that. I'll certainly bear them in mind if we do try it out!